Sarah Mills: Teachers deserve gratitude as school year wraps up
There's a collective sigh coming from Saskatchewan's teachers as the school year ends. Sarah Mills says teachers are ask...
8:30 – Canadian Michael Spavor has been sentenced to 11 years in Chinese prison after being found guilty of espionage, a charge many in Canada are calling trumped-up. Toronto Sun Columnist Brian Lilley says China is playing an obvious game of hostage diplomacy, using Spavor, along with Michael Kovrig and Robert Schellenberg, to secure the release of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. Lilley says Trudeau should hold fast and refuse to cut a deal with China, even if it means securing Spavor’s release, and he joins Gormley to explain why.
LIVE: Brian Lilley, Toronto Sun Columnist
9:00 – WE Charity is back in the news, once again for the wrong reasons. A new report by Canada’s procurement ombudsman showed that before the major scandal WE was repeatedly contacted by the federal government with confidential contract offers before prices were worked out, giving WE a big leg up on the competition and creating issues of fairness. Blacklocks broke the story, and managing editor Tom Korski joins Gormley to share the details, and discuss whether “Teflon” Trudeau will ever be truly hurt by a scandal.
LIVE: Tom Korski, managing editor of Blacklocks Reporter
9:15 – The Hour of the Big Stories… Open Session
10:00 – A team of clinical psychologists at the University of Calgary is sounding the alarm over high rates of depression and anxiety in children, and say rates have doubled in youths since the start of the pandemic, amounting to a mental health crisis. The team performed a meta-analysis of studies involving more than 80,000 youths globally, and found one in four children worldwide are experiencing clinically-elevated depression symptoms while one in five are suffering elevated anxiety symptoms. The team recommends more mental health supports be put in place to address the issues, and Dr. Nicole Racine joins Gormley to tell us more about her research and findings.
LIVE: Dr. Nicole Racine, Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Calgary
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11:30 – Do you have a dashcam on your vehicle? Driving columnist Lorraine Sommerfeld says dashcams are quickly becoming “a dual-edged sword of safety and privacy,” and writes that some are concerned that dashcams create privacy issues, despite offering benefits when it comes to proving fault in an accident or recording a car break-in. Do you think we’ll all be using dashcams in a few years, or do you worry about your privacy when you see a dashcam in your Uber? Call 1-877-332-8255 and let us know!
12:00 – Only one athlete from Saskatchewan claimed a medal during the “2020” Tokyo Olympics. Jennifer Gilbert won the bronze for Team Canada in the women’s softball event, and she joins Gormley to tell us about the experience.
LIVE: Jennifer Gilbert, Olympic bronze medalist in women’s softball
